Yay for YA Lit!

[amanuensis1]

Anybody here read Tamora Pierce?

The Circle of Magic books? The latest one, The Will of the Empress?


She's got one of the Circle in a same-sex romance.

:squeeble!:

Comments

[cheshyre]

Yup. I'm a big fan of hers.

YA lit is often impressively progressive.
Kel and Alanna both had premarital sex, and one of the Kel books mentioned homosexuality as a taboo (though Kel didn't understand why).

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Yup. I was reading the Trickster books and was startled (pleasantly) all over again by the premarital sex.

[cheshyre]

I started reading YA books heavily about five years ago or so.
I remember my shock in Sean Stewart's Nobody's Son (a fairytale-ish beginning in which the poor orphan defeats the magical quest and wins the princess's hand in marriage... and what comes after) where the lead character thinks to himself that he's swived plenty of farmgirls, but that was often quick tumbles so they wouldn't get pregnant.

Shocked me for a moment, then I thought about it, realized it was totally in character, and since then I've generally been quite impressed with YA fic for its absence of gratuitous sex. There's sex aplenty, but it's necessary for plot or character.

[When I want gratuitious sex, I seek out fanfic. ;D ]